The world that bear the Christian name

Verse 1
The world that bear the Christian name,
Thy authority disclaim,
Against thy laws rebel:
And who thy government refuse
The yoke of sin they madly chuse,
And serve the prince of hell.

Verse 2
Jesus, preserve thy grace in me
Willing to be rul’d by Thee,
By Thee my Lord alone:
My only rightful King Thou art;
Restore, and stablish in my heart
Thine everlasting throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’—[Luke 19,] v. 14.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 174-75.
Publishing: Public Domain